Bernhard Schlink

‘The Reader’ by Bernard Schlink and film Cabaret directed by Bob Fosse illustrates the way in which good and evil are a uniting force; wherein one cannot be wholly good or evil. Composers explore good triumphing over evil through context, and the representation of characters, along with metaphorical language and imagery; in doing so, compelling the reader to question their moral thinking and definitions of both good and evil. As judgements change and develop over time, the German society after…

All the texts are published in 2002/3. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, reflects on the effect of recent historical events and is set in a post-holocaust Germany, where second generation Germans have inherited the search for justice in a bid to overcome the guilt of the past. Meanwhile Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie, is a more contemporary response to a current situation and is set in 1990s Nigeria, where political democracy and justice have been disregarded in a bid to gain power. In…

The reader by Bernhard Schlink was published in 1995, as a parable on the post-war reactions to the atrocities of the past by the second generation of Germans towards the actions of the first generation. The book was written in the first person view of the narrator Michael Berg, from the perspective of himself as a 15 year old boy, and later as an approximately 50 year old man. This allows the novel to illustrate the ideas of relationships, guild and responsibility and an attempt to cope with…